Moving along…

Well I am back on track. No meat for three days. My partner offered me a chicken ball and I told her if I was going to eat meat it was certainly not going to be a chicken ball!!! Blah! Didn’t like them before can’t imagine eating one now. Now pork ribs…that is another story!

I have made potato soup again. I am not the only one who likes it thankfully. I am hoping to make channa masala soon (curried chickpeas) and will post the recipe for all who are interested.

Something is happening in my brain…

I no longer really think about eating meat (well except for bacon). It has been a little over a week since I last had meat (it was bacon). I actually let a grocery store chicken come into the house without eating any of the skin (my favourite part). I am not sure what is going on but something has shifted.

So, what have I been eating? I have had some prawns (they are good for me as they don’t promote inflammation and they have omega 3s in them), potato soup, veggie lasagna, hummus, cucuumbers in yogurt with dill, eggplant caponata twice, veggie sub, veggie pizza, nachos. So quite varied. I intend to make daal this week – although if it gets as hot as they say I think I will just go somewhere and die.

No posting…sorry

I have not posted for a couple of days mostly due to job seeking craziness. I had an interview that went very well, I was sure I had the job and then didn’t get it so I was bummed.

I have managed mostly meat free for the last several days still. I did have a caesar salad with bacon in it one day but I have not had any other meat. I am starting to think more in terms of eating vegetarian. Yesterday I made a pizza with fresh basil, grilled zucchini, tomatos and mozza. It was pretty good although I found it a bit sweet for my taste. Not sure what was sweet…

So all things considered things have been going very well on the vegetarian front. I am going to make some more soup I am just not sure when. Not today I have decided that. I will have pasta for dinner tonight and shrimp for lunch.

Third meat-free day in a row!

Wow, I can hardly believe it but I have had three meat-free days in a row! No wild cravings or anything. Although today I do want caesar salad with bacon bits and will likely have that for dinner. I had a salad with chick peas and a piece of veg pizza for dinner last night.

Now, if I can just stop eating those damn butter tarts Deb made…

Update

Well, I managed another meat free day yesterday!! Yah for me. I did have prawns for dinner but as I have mentioned they don’t have the acid that causes inflammation. However as time goes by I may try to eliminate all animal protein. Bacon will be the hardest but I digress. It looks like today is shaping up to be another meat free day. I have had no major cravings for anything meat related which is really good. We are going to a bbq this afternoon but burgers won’t tempt me. I will eat salad and potato salad that Deb made.

On another note we went out for dinner with Carol from SAINTS. She was telling us how cows cry real tears. This really affected me. I think we see the expression of emotion as strictly a human thing but apparently not. More thought needs to be given about animals and our effect on them.

meat-free day

Well, I didn’t have any meat yesterday. I had veggie soup from the other day, eggs and mashed potatos. It was a good day. I was craving an Italian sub from subway but managed to talk myself out of it because I knew it would not taste as good as I thought it would.

We are going out for dinner tonight and I will likely stick with seafood or salad. So far meat free today as well!

More thinking…

Well I have done more thinking about my goal of becoming vegetarian and how I am going to get there. One of the problems I having right now is that I don’t have enough of a veggie repertoire, cooking wise, to be able to do this effectively. My new cookbooks have arrived so I am looking forward to trying out some new recipes. I have a feeling I will be eating alot of egg plant! Meat substitutes don’t do it for me either. I am not sure why but I just don’t like them and they leave me cold and wanting the real thing.

As I try to increase the number of veggie recipes I am going to try and use meat only as a condiment rather than the focal point of meals. i think this is much more doable for me right now. Or trying to be meatless on some days. I have not had any meals in the last couple of weeks where meat has been the main part of it. I have had lots of salads where bacon has been a condiment or little bits of chicken here and there. The one exception may be the burger I had the other day.

So, onward I go…

July 13, 2008

Well being around my mother is not good for my food choices. I ended up eating a Macdonald’s burger yesterday! Very unlike me. Anyway, she is gone now and hopefully we can get back to some semblance of normalacy. I find her very stressful. I did end up eating a veg dinner though.

Hopefully today will be a meat free day!

July 11, 2008

Yesterday I had bacon for breakfast (have I mentioned that bacon is my all time favourite food). We took my mother out to the Copper Room at Harrison Hot springs and I had the prawns rather than chicken, duck or beef. I think I will try and make today meat free though if possible. I don’t have a lot of control over what we are eating at this point but I will make a good effort. My mother goes home tomorrow.

July 9, 2008

Well, I succesfully avoided the steak last night and had potato salad and grilled eggplant for dinner. Yah for me. I am not sure what today will look like as plans are kind of up in the air as my mother is here visiting. Will keep everyone posted as I can.